Kubernetes AcceleratedYour Path to Enterprise Cloud Native

Google’s Kubernetes open source project for container management has just recently celebrated its first birthday. In its first year, it has attracted massive community and enterprise interest. The numbers speak for themselves: almost 400 contributors from across industry; over 8000 stars and 12000+ commits on Github. And many will have heard it mentioned in almost every other conversation at recent container meetups and industry conferences – no doubt with various different pronunciations!

If you’ve not seen the Wall Street Journal’s Billion Dollar Startup Club, this article tracks venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more.
I thought I would take a look into their technology stacks to see what I could learn.
The companies I have chosen to explore aren’t based on any categorisation, they are just highly visible companies that I thought most people would recognise.
Obviously these companies are different to your average company, but they are fast-growing, innovative, and perhaps give us a glimpse into the future of computing.

I made the cut as a millennial by one year. The rate of technological change I have witnessed over the years is amazing. I’ve seen the birth of the web, the first mobile phones in the playground, and the flurry of excitement as the university computing lab is introduced to ‘thefacebook’.